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Another gray day here in north central MA. Low 40's with a chance of showers later on. Today is my Sat from "work" and next school term starts tomorrow.

Prolly just layabout watch a movie, nap, football. Gotta buy my books and probably check in on the syllabus to see what's in store for this term.

- Computing as a Service: Looks like another class on cloud based systems and Internet of Things (IoT).
- User-Centered System Design and Evaluation: Looks like another class on IT applications, systems and design focused from the user perspective side of things.

First of the year, so go through my spreadsheet and re-balance some holdings in my play brokerage account for tomorrow's trades.

Got a new work phone yesterday that wasn't fully set up so maybe look into that. Gotta download apps and get stuff transferred over to it. Might have to call for tech support since there's a couple apps where I'll need their authorization to install them.

It's 36 degrees out there! Oh, the huge manatee!

Dog walk is postponed until further notice. Or until he gets outa bed and gives me the "Hey, jackass... I gotta poop" look.

Let your smart phone take your dog out...

Millennial phone BOYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Prollum s.l.o.v.e.d.

I prefer something that is hands on and not something where I have to spend a majority of the day in meetings and BS.

I'll be a new grad so I'll be low on the totem pole in this new environment which is fine by me. Local IT help desk grunt, network maintenance, day to day average fix it guy.

I haven't looked into what's out there in my area yet, I still have about 9 months before I graduate. It's a dynamic field and even more so in the last few years with the COVID thing.

Time will tell. Probably will only make half of what I did money wise in my previous career and I'm OK with that. It's not all about money.

I do miss the engineering challenges and stuff though from my previous work - I learned a ton and loved taking on new projects and watch blossom to completion.

Maybe I land something where I can do both. Maybe there's something out there where I can use product/process engineering experience (I loved this stuff - Lean Mfg really sunk it's claws into me) and also be an asset doing some IT work. Experienced engineer, rookie IT dude looking to learn more.

29 degrees and frost on the ground

Global warming.

57 degrees tomorrow 31degrees with 60% chance of snow.

How come if we gain over 1/2 hour of sunlight this month that it's getting colder?

Break out that shovel!

I always kept a can of starting fluid on hand if my snow blower hesitated to start after a couple of pulls.

Part of me kinda misses dressing up in a few layers topped with an 80's snowmobile suit and some heavy boots to go blow snow for 2 hours. The end of the driveway and around the mail box after the plows went by was especially fun {sarcasm}. Then shoveling the stairs on the front porch and clearing off the back deck only to do it again later

The other part of me looks back and dope slaps me. There are some perks with condo/apartment living. One is not having to worry about clearing snow anymore.

Out of curiosity, who else is on your list?

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Rut Row !!!😂😂😂😂

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Had to pick some Meyer lemons because the branch was so weighted that it snapped. Now drinking lemonade.

Never ends danm never ends.


Hopefully keeps on a running..............

36/49 in LA today with wind 10-15 and gust to 30.

An excellent day to stay indoors.

Checked local rental places online. Nobody open right now. Closest place says I can't start rental contract online till 1/6. Next one is 1/4. If I drive to Chicago there's a place I can get a few heaters today, but would be $600ish to rent till Thursday. Prices are mid $20's per day on the closer places. 3 days covers buying new. Plus I would then have them on hand for next time. Last winter the heat went out and I managed to get through with some duct tape and jumper wires to bypass safety stuff until I got parts.

I have Home Depot gift cards in my wallet. I'm gonna buy two 1500w radiant heaters and put them in the basement. Keep the pipes from freezing and hopefully keep the upstairs 50+

I turned up the garage furnace to 65. I can open the two doors to the garages and put a couple box fans in the doorway to help heat the house too. But keeping the well lines and stuff from freezing is number 1.

When I got the furnace installed I was unemployed and had them install a cheap mobile home furnace. He did warn me I wouldn't get 10 years from it, but I was already 40k in the hole on credit and the $1500 furnace was easier to take than the $3500 furnace. I've not yet spent that much repairing it but getting close. Hopefully I can get through to the spring and call him out for a 20 year furnace during their slow months. I'm gonna put this old furnace in the garage. I'm afraid of what's coming with more parts shortages and stuff.

Home Depot open now, heading there.

This happens every year with ours. Some branches as big as 2" have snapped due to the weight. Just now starting to pick some but most look like they won't be fully ripe for another month or more. Wife slices and freezes the lemons for summertime use in drinks. We give boxes of lemons to the neighbors and still have enough to put more boxes out on the front yard with a FREE sign each year. The crop is uuuuuge again this year but the lemons are smaller than last year.

I never have a heat issue in the winter but sure have had a recurrent cold problem with the AC in the summer months. Think I have it fixed finally after about 5-6 episodes last July-Aug of auto shut-offs during 110 degree days. Had the owner of the company come out with his top tech after so many other techs just patched the problem temporarily.

It's a cold 38 out right now but going up to a sunny 60+ today and may even get to 70 by the end of the week.

Good luck danm. Got anything that will burn?

Well that didn't last long.

House filled with blower motor smoke.

Putting the electrics to work.

5°F outside right now.

Garage furnace cranked up to 70 and put a fan to blow in from the far side of the house. Moved the CO detector to that hallway

Morning gents

Sneezing quite a bit this morning... prolly covid.

Nice knowin' ya'll.

Nothing real going on today. Waiting for my plumber to call to say he is on his way to fix a stuck shower valve, check out a toilet, stop the "water hammer" on another toilet, install a new kitchen faucet and remove and bury the pipes for the laundry tub we have never really used so we can put a huge cabinet or shelves in the alcove it sits in. He has one job to finish and then can get it all done. No using the same company for almost 15 years now. They do good work and are fast. Bet this will cost me $300.

13 degrees, with 10 mph winds sustained. Wish I had the skills to teach the dog to read and understand the weather.

Morning all, no clue about the weather other than the morning walk was cool. We went 5 miles. My doctors are still debating on how intense I can exersize so walking and calisthenics it is for now.

Damn, Palama beat me to it.

But, I think my plane flight to snatch the stash will beat his plane flight.